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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2004
Kazuo Yokota, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Yokota, Tokyo, JP;
TEAC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide a disc drive device capable of compulsively ejecting an optical disc by a manipulation function from the outside to prevent information recorded on the optical disc mounted on the disc drive device from being damaged. A disc drive devicefor loading and driving an optical disc D to record information thereon or reproduce information recorded thereon comprises a manual ejection prohibiting means. Excluding when a carrier blockof a head unit B which has an optical pickupis moved to a circumferential moving end of the optical disc D and a corner portionA of the carrier blockpresses a driven part, irrespective of whether or not there is an intention for ejecting the optical disc D, even though an emergency pin P is inserted into a through-hole, the optical disc D is prevented from being ejected.
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